Love & War 2

Chapter 1: The Netherrealm War

The entire scene takes place in Japan, where the Netherrealm War began. Soldiers from around the world were combating some kind of demons from the Netherrealm. One soldier tried to take them with his assault rifle (looks like a beefed up M16), but did not get any clear hits at all. One demon roared and flew towards the soldier, grabed his head and separated it from his spine. Afterward, the demon got shot down by approaching military helicopters. In one of them was Johnny Cage, Sonya Blade and Kenshi. All dialogues from this scene were covered in headphones.

"Destination dead ahead, "said a pilot.

"Set 'er down nice and easy," Johnny said.

"Don't I always?"

"By always, you mean "not once'?"

Cage looks to Sonya.

"Major?"

Sonya Blade, now Major of the Special Forces, makes her announcement, "Alright, you have your rendezvous coordinates, far edge of the forest. From there, we access the portal to Raiden's Sky Temple."

One soldier didn't seem at all phased of the events outside.

"Gods, portals, flying demons...," he said.

"Blind guys with magic swords," Cage said to Kenshi.

"The world has changed," Kenshi said. "For the worse if we do not expel Shinnok form Raiden's temple. He means to poison Earthrealm's life force: The Jinsei."

Sonya spoke, "And we're not gonna let that happen."

"Kenshi and I appreciate the Major for allowing us to join you. We're happy to help kick Shinnok's bony ass back to the Netherrealm," said Cage.

Explosions were heard from the front of their chopper. One of them caught fire and crashed down. Sonya co-piloted quickly, but their chopper got hit as well.

"We gotta land this thing!

Unfortunately for the pilot, a kunai penetrated through the chopper's windshield and impaled the pilot's face.

"Shit."

The pilot gets dragged through the broken windshield. Sonya tried to keep the chopper from crashing. A sound came from inside the chopper where Johnny and Kenshi were standing. It was a ninja, the hellspawn Scorpion in his MK9 outfit.

Before the soldiers could react, Scorpion kicked two of them in the chest, knocked one of them in front of him with a straight right hand, elbows one behind him and then draws his sword in the same motion and beheaded the next two in front. Then he buried his sword in the face of the fifth, draws his second sword and backhands it through the stomach of the sixth. He then sheaths both swords as the last two soldiers fall dead, all in a span of 6 seconds.

Cage and Kenshi stepped forward. Scorpion launches a fireball at Kenshi, sending him flying against Sonya's seat, knocked out for a while. Scorpion hurls his kunai at Johnny, who catches it. "Damn, I'm good."

He launches his patented Shadow Kick which connected to Scorpion's chest, sending him almost to the back of the chopper. Johnny gives Scorpion's chained kunai a good tug, dragging Scorpion back to him. He then slammed the ninja spectre against both sides of the chopper. Scorpion quickly recovered and throws a right hand, but Cage blocked it and parried two more strikes then dodges a side kick, smashing the back of Scorpion's head with a superman punch.

Scorpion takes out his kunai and charges toward Cage. Cage barely manages to block his attack. Despite his desperate struggle, he finds the strength to shove Scorpion's forearm from him and kicks him away. As Scorpion staggered, Kenshi tackled him out of the open side of the chopper. Scorpion latches on the side handle with Kenshi hanging on to his leg.

Johnny lied on the floor and sees another person just entered. This person was wearing a maroon MK4 ninja-type outfit with salt-&-pepper hair, two black tattoos facing vertically up and down his eyes, with no pupils. This person was Reiko, former General of Shao Kahn's armies. (I replaced Sub-Zero with Reiko since he and the others are still alive from the first Love & War, remember?)

The two soldiers who were knocked out earlier by Scorpion awoke to see Reiko. They tried to strike him, but Reiko blocked the attacks and then smashes their heads together. He throws the headless corpse at Cage, who did the splits to avoid it. Another head rolls toward Cage but he flicks out of the chopper. "Ew, nasty."

Reiko charges at Cage and tries to strike him, but Cage counters with a backflip kick. As he lands, Reiko blocked a follow-up kick and throws a punch and a low sweep. Cage avoids them.

As the fight continued, Scorpion and Kenshi were still hanging from the chopper's side. Scorpion finally kicks Kenshi off of him, but the swordsman uses his sword to stab the side of the chopper, trying to hang on.

Returning to the fight, Cage blocks more of Reiko's strikes and manages to get a right cross in. As Reiko staggered, Cage sensed that someone was behind him. It was Scorpion. Cage elbows Scorpion in the face, ducking another strike from Reiko. He did the splits and punched Reiko in the nuts. As Reiko recoiled in pain, Cage grabs both Scorpion's and Reiko's heads and smashed them together. Reiko gets caught in a telekinetic glow from Kenshi as he violently hurls Reiko out the back door of the chopper. Johnny then punches Scorpion, sending him flying from the side of the chopper. Scorpion used his kunai to climb back in.

"No."

Johnny has had enough and tackles the spectre out of the chopper, hoping to smash him into the pavement, but Scorpion disappears, leaving Johnny to hit the pavement hard.

Despite Sonya's efforts, the chopper crashes, carving out a large portion of the road, causing Sonya to smack her head hard and lost consciousness.

Johnny recovered from the fall out of the chopper. He heads to the downed chopper immediately but was stopped by Scorpion.

"The end is near," said the spectre.

"Getting a little ahead of yourself, aren't ya?" Cage asked.

Although they fought in the chopper, Cage showed Scorpion that he is not just a Earthrealm warrior just by being a mere movie star and finally floors him.

Sonya slowly woke up. Johnny continued towards the chopper. "Sonya, get outta th..." Cage was hit a series of death stars. They disappeared a few moments later. Johnny turned around and sees Reiko approaching him.

"Who are you?" asked Cage.

"Name means nothing on the battlefield."

Johnny faces Reiko. Some say Reiko's skill is legendary. As a general of Shao Kahn's army, his ruthless endeavor is not one to be underestimated. During the fight, Reiko used a flip kick like nothing I've ever seen before. He lifts his leg straight and moved his body down at the same time, like a clock counting all 12 hours of the day. How does he do that?

Even so, Cage defeats him.

Johnny finally gets to the chopper. Kenshi secured her.

"You ok?" Sonya nodded.

"We fared better than the men," Kenshi replied.

"Add 'em to the list of things Shinnok will answer for."